Fastening device.



UNITED 'STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK F. WOOD,VOF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FASTENING DEVICE.

SFECIFICATION forming part Ot ALetters Patent No. 687,550, dated November 26, 1901.

Application filed April Z5, 1901. Serial No. 57,367. (No model.)

To all whom. t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK F.7WOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, iu the county of Kings and city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for securing a band of wire or the like about a box or packing-case, and especially to those forms where a wire is passed about a box or packing-case and secured at its ends to form a seal.

The object of the invention is to provide a device,which for convenience may be called a nail, for securing or fastening both ends of the wire, this nail being provid ed with two or more keepers for the wire, and said keepers being situated adjacent to and at different distances from the head end of the nail for reasons that will be hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings,which serve to illustrate the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the preferred form of the nail or wire-fastener, the View being approximately of full size for ordinary use. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, on a small scale, of a wooden box or packing-case, illustrating-lone application of the invention. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 areillustrative sectional views showing the dierent successive stages in driving in the nail or Wire-fastener. Figs. '7, 8, 9, 10, 1l, 12, and 13 are views illustrating different arrangements of the keepers in the nail and different ways of threading the wire through the holes or keepers in the nail.

The nail A, Fig. 1, will be, by preference, cut or punched from metal plate, as iron or homogeneous steel, of tapered form and will have in its head end a, where it is broadest, three holes a a2 a3 to form keepers for the binding-wire h aboutthe box B. (Seen in Fig. 2.)

Figs. 3 to 6 illustrate how the nail is used. Fig. 3 shows the nail driven in until the hole a' is just above the surface of the wood and the end of the wire b passed through it. A blow of the hammer sinks the nail in until the wire in the hole is bound by the wood, as seen in Fig. 4. The wire 1J is now passed and drawn about the box and its other end passed through the hole ai, and a blow of the hammer drives the nail still farther in until this end of the wire is also bound by the wood. This will effect a secure fastening of the Wire at both ends; but I prefer to go still farther to effect a secure seal. The surplus of the irst end of the wire secured is passed through the hole a and then back through the hole a3, as seen in Fig. 4, and after the fastening of the last end of the wire, as seen in Fig. 5, the surplus ends of the wire are twisted together and the nail driven in iiush, as seen in Fig. 6.

Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate another way of twisting together the ends of the wire. This will require no explanation.

Figs. 7, 10, 11, and 12 merely show different ways of shaping or forming the wire keepers or retainers. In Fig. 7 for example, the two keepers or holes a and d2 are connected Alby a slot. In Fig. 10 the keeper or hole a3 is omitted, and the keepers a' and a2 are open at the edges of the naile so that the wire need not be threaded through them. In Fig. 1l the keepers a' and a2 are substantially the same as in Fig. 10, but the hole a3 is retained. In Fig. 12 the keeper a3 is open, so that the wire need not be threaded through it. Fig.

13 shows the keepers formed in a nail having a body that is nearly square in cross-section. These several views are employed merely to illustrate the various ways in which the essential features of my invention may be embodied.

I may say that the only object in putting the keepers out of line or staggering them is that it puts one end of the wire conveniently abreast of the other instead of directly over it. In Fig. 13, where the nail is narrow, the keepers are alined. The size and special form of the nail is not material to my invention, nor is the particular material from which they are made. They might be barbed in a known way, if desired. By wire is herein meant any narrow bandlike flexible material capable of being used with my fastener.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-- 1. A straight nail or wire-fastener having a point, a head end to receive the blow in driving, and a plurality of keepers all adjacent to said head end but at different distances therefrom, said keepers being,r formed. in the body of the nail to receive the Wire and clench it to the Wood in which the nail is driven.

2. A nail or Wire-fastener having a point, a head end to receive the blow in driving, a round hole at a little distance from said head end to form a keeper for the Wire, and one or more round holes near said head end but at a greater distance therefrom than the rstnamed hole, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A nail or wire-fastener having in it two orl more keepers for the Wire adjacent to itshead end, said keepers being staggered and 15 situated at different distances from said end.

4. A nail or Wire-fastener having a point, a head end to receive the blow in driving, and three keepers for the Wire situated a't-dier- ,ent distances from but adjacent to its head 2o 

